Verse 1
1. Hear this word As in Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1.
Ye kine Jerome, who was followed by some later writers, understood this to apply to the effeminate nobility, “the rulers of Israel and all the leading men of the ten tribes who spent their time in pleasure and robbery”; others limit it to the nobles condemned in Amos 3:9 ff. However, it is better to understand the words as addressed to the wanton women of Samaria, whose thoughtlessness and luxury had transformed their gentle natures into those of brutes (compare Isaiah 3:16 ff; Isaiah 32:9 ff.).
Bashan The very fertile district east of the Jordan and north of the Yarmuk, which was rich in pasture land (Micah 7:14; compare Psalms 22:12).
Mountain of Samaria See on Amos 3:9.
Which oppress… crush Indirectly, by insisting upon the gratification of their appetites, though the means with which to do this had to be secured unjustly. The two verbs are combined in Deuteronomy 28:33; 1 Samuel 12:3-4, etc.
Masters R.V., “lords”; or, husbands, which is another meaning of the word.
Let us drink Or, feast, the feasts including drinking and carousing of every sort.
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